Shoe.



N. H. HASSEL.

SHOE.

APPLICATION YILBD JUNE 1a, 1914.

LlA, A Patented Jan, 26, 1915.

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NELS H. ESSEL, 0F LOS ANGELES, GLIFORNA.

SHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.\

Patented aan. ee, reis.

Application led I une 1S, 1914. Serial No. 845,956.

To all whom t may concern p Be it known that l, Nuns H. Hessen, acitizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county ofLos Angeles, State of California., have invented a new and useful Shoe,of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to shoes, and the principal object of theinvention is to pro-- back to show the waterproof material.

In these drawings, 1 is the upper of a shoe having a vamp' 2, an uppersole 3, a lowervsole fl, and a heel 5 Placed between the soles 3 and 4lis a layer of thin rubber 6 whichinay be secured in any convenientmanner and which pre-vents moisture from working up through the soles.The layers 3 and fl are formed of leather and give the wearing qualitiesnecessary in a shoe of this character. The rubber 6 is very thin and isprovided simply to give an impervious layer against the action of water.|The layer n( is preferably made of thin rubber or it may be made ofoiled linen or other treated fabric or leather. rl`he layer of thinrubber 6J diminishes in thickness toward the out/er edge thereof, asindicated` at 7, terminating in a knife edge 8, which, when the uppersole 3 and lower sole 4 are stitched, as indicated: at 9., is barelydiscernible on the outer surface of the sole of the shoe without a veryclose examination. In fact, the" shoe when completed has the appearanceof any ordinary shoe. By beveling or thinning in the drawings, the shoe,as indicated, has

the saine appearance as the ordinary shoe,

and at the same time the layer of rubber is protected from scufling andabrasion along the edges thereof.

It will be understood that the edge of the layer of rubber 6 mayterminate within the outer edge of' the leather soles 3 and 4f, in whichcase such a4 construction would come within the scope of my invention asherein disclosed. rlfhe layer of rubber 6 extends from the toe of theshoe into the heel ofthe shoe a short distance and terminates asindicated by dotted line l() in Fig.

My invention, as above described, will be found to be particularlyuseful for those who do not like the discomfort of wearing rubberovershoes, and is also particularly adapted to be vworn during lightrains where the wearer of the shoes is not obliged to travel throughpools of water, although a shoe constructed as above described will befound even under such circumstances to provide considerable protection.

lf claim as my invention:

ln a shoe, a sole composed of an upper leather portion, a lower leatherportion, a thin layer of rubber secured between said leather portions,said layer of rubber diminishing in thickness toward Athe edge thereof,and a row of stitching of binding material extending through said upperand lower leather portions and through the diminishing portion of thelayer of rubber therebetween adjacent to the edge of said layer ofrubber.

ln testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles,California, this 11th day of June, 1914.

y NELS H. HASSEL. ln presence of FRED A. MANSFIELD,

VFORD W. HARRIS.

